The US and Turkey have pulled back from the brink of a potentially disastrous crisis, agreeing to normalise strained relations over Syria and other issues that had threatened the Nato allies’ long-standing ties.

South Africa’s new president Cyril Ramaphosa is preparing to give his first state of the nation address to a country with high expectations as he vows to curb corruption that flourished under his predecessor.

Draped in a Danish flag bearing the royal coat of arms, the coffin of Denmark’s Prince Henrik, husband of Queen Margrethe, was taken on a stately procession through the streets of northern Copenhagen on Thursday.

President Donald Trump struck a solemn tone after the deadly school shooting in Florida, describing a “scene of terrible violence, hatred and evil” and promising to “tackle the difficult issue of mental health”, but avoiding any mention of guns.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu has said he will no longer be a global ambassador for Oxfam after allegations that senior staff members in crisis zones paid for sex among the desperate people the group was meant to serve.

Ethiopian prime minister Hailemariam Desalegn has submitted a resignation letter after the worst anti-government protests in a quarter of a century, saying he hoped the surprise decision would help planned reforms succeed and create a “lasting peace”.

The US and Turkey have pulled back from the brink of a potentially disastrous crisis, agreeing to normalise strained relations over Syria and other issues that had threatened the Nato allies’ long-standing ties.

South Africa’s new president Cyril Ramaphosa is preparing to give his first state of the nation address to a country with high expectations as he vows to curb corruption that flourished under his predecessor.

Draped in a Danish flag bearing the royal coat of arms, the coffin of Denmark’s Prince Henrik, husband of Queen Margrethe, was taken on a stately procession through the streets of northern Copenhagen on Thursday.

President Donald Trump struck a solemn tone after the deadly school shooting in Florida, describing a “scene of terrible violence, hatred and evil” and promising to “tackle the difficult issue of mental health”, but avoiding any mention of guns.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu has said he will no longer be a global ambassador for Oxfam after allegations that senior staff members in crisis zones paid for sex among the desperate people the group was meant to serve.

Ethiopian prime minister Hailemariam Desalegn has submitted a resignation letter after the worst anti-government protests in a quarter of a century, saying he hoped the surprise decision would help planned reforms succeed and create a “lasting peace”.

An orphaned 19-year-old with a troubled past and an AR-15 rifle was charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder on Thursday morning after being questioned for hours by state and US federal authorities following the deadliest school shooting in the country in five years.

US police were trying to piece together how a 49-year-old skier whose disappearance sparked a massive search on a snowy New York mountainside ended up six days later in California, confused and still in ski clothes.

US Senator Chris Murphy says it scares him “to death” that the Senate “doesn’t take seriously” children’s safety after 17 people died in a Florida school attack. The Connecticut Democrat represents the state where the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting took place in 2012.

A coffin carrying Denmark’s Prince Henrik, the husband of Queen Margrethe, has left a palace in the country’s north for a chapel in central Copenhagen chapel, where it will be on display until a private funeral next week.

The suspect in a deadly rampage at a Florida high school is a troubled teenager who posted disturbing material on social media before the shooting spree that killed at least 17 people, according to police.

A former military dog trainer has confessed to “unintentionally” killing a nine-year-old girl whose disappearance from a wedding party in the Alps last year prompted nationwide concern and months of fruitless searching.

A French court has acquitted a man charged with harbouring Islamic extremists after they carried out the 2015 Paris attacks, in the first trial related to the country’s deadliest extremist violence since the Second World War.

South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma has broken his silence to disagree with the ruling party’s order to resign and say he had done nothing wrong, setting the stage for his almost certain ousting in a parliamentary vote on Thursday after years of corruption scandals.

An explosive was used in a blast that has killed at least four people during Bolivia’s Carnival celebrations, the second deadly explosion to hit the city of Oruro during the season, the country’s defence minister has said.

Kosovo’s president has called an international war crimes court with jurisdiction over potential Kosovar suspects a “historical injustice”, adding his government only reluctantly accepted it as the “price for its liberty”.

Billions of dollars have been pledged at a donor conference for Iraq’s reconstruction after the country’s devastating war with the Islamic State group, though the amounts announced so far still fall short of the 88.2 billion US dollars Baghdad is seeking.

China’s Lunar New Year festival is the biggest annual migration of people in the world. Some migrant workers use the holiday to visit home for the only time in the year with the celebrations of the Year Of The Dog set to reach a climax on Friday.

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has shrugged off police recommendations that he be charged with corruption, calling the allegations “biased, extreme, full of holes, like Swiss cheese” and vowed to remain in office.